Baalousha M., Lead J.R. (Eds.) Characterization of nanomaterials in complex environmental and biological media

Elsevier, 2015. — 300 p. — (Frontiers of Nanoscience 08). — ISBN 978-0-08-099948-7.Characterization of Nanomaterials in Complex Environmental and Biological Media covers the novel properties of nanomaterials and their applications to consumer products and industrial processes.The book fills the growing gap in this challenging area, bringing together disparate strands in chemistry, physics, biology, and other relevant disciplines. It provides an overview on nanotechnology, nanomaterials, nano(eco)toxicology, and nanomaterial characterization, focusing on the characterization of a range of nanomaterial physicochemical properties of relevance to environmental and toxicological studies and their available analytical techniques.
Readers will find a multidisciplinary approach that provides highly skilled scientists, engineers, and technicians with the tools they need to understand and interpret complicated sets of data obtained through sophisticated analytical techniques.
Addresses the requirements, challenges, and solutions for nanomaterial characterization in environmentally complex media
Focuses on technique limitations, appropriate data collection, data interpretation, and analysis
Aids in understanding and comparing nanomaterial characterization data reported in the literature using different analytical tools
Includes case studies of characterization relevant complex media to enhance understandingEcotoxicology of Nanomaterials in Aquatic Systems
Overview of Nanomaterial Characterization and Metrology
Size Distributions
Analytical Transmission Electron Microscopy and Scanning Transmission Electron
Microscopy Techniques for the Characterization of Nanomaterial Composition, Phase and Crystallinity
Methods for Measuring Concentration (Mass, Surface Area and Number) of Nanomaterials
Nanomaterials: Dispersion, Dissolution and Dose
Surface Properties (Physical and Chemical) and Related Reactions: Characterization via a Multi-Technique Approach
Control of Nanomaterials Used in Chemical Mechanical Polishing/Planarization Slurries during On-site Industrial and Municipal Biological Wastewater Treatment